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Head coach Kelly Sheffield
Wisconsin vs. Georgia
UW Field House
Sept. 10, 2015

Opening Statement
"First of all, I thought the MVP of the match was the crowd, the students. Having so many of them out here for the match, we're really appreciative of them coming. Hopefully, we can get them back out here.

"I think a lot of times you get up here, even after you win and you find 12 things that you didn't do very well. Like I told the team, it was hard to find too many things we didn't do well tonight. I thought we played a pretty complete match."

On quality of passing
"I thought we passed well, but even more so than that - and we've gotten better every week with our passing and that's made a difference - I thought we transitioned really, really well. I thought we came up with some really nice defensive plays and played scrappy and controlled.

"One of the things that we haven't done a very good job of is when balls have gotten on our platform, whether it's a free ball or down ball or transition or an easier serve, we've made Lauren [Carlini] run all over the place. Our platform control, along with our defensive intensity, was very good and that's why it felt like that. And that's something that these guys have worked really hard on and they're going to continue to work hard on that. Lauren had a lot of options tonight because we were controlling those things. I also thought we blocked well and that was a point of emphasis the last few days, as well."

Taylor Morey

About 14-point service run
"It's something that we work on in practice all the time. It's just being able to go back to the service line and clear your mind, whether you've served one ball, five balls or 10. We work a lot on our in percentage and that's something that I try to take pride with, that my serve is serve confident and in the court. And also during that run, our blockers were doing a great job, and like [Sheffield] said we were transitioning hard, so it made it easy to keep the run going when we were playing so clean. "

Kelli Bates

On whether she felt like she hit a rhythm with her hitting
"I guess you could say that. But I always look for that from the beginning of a match anyways."

On the energy of crowd
"As a team from the beginning of the season, we've been looking for ways to find momentum, so when we have a crowd as big as our student section was tonight, it's really easy to find momentum and find that energy just because of the crowd's feedback. We obviously have to find that within ourselves as a team when we're at an away match or something like that. But the crowd and the fans make it a lot easier on us to find that momentum."